DeeDee
Halleck is a media activist and professor of communication at the University
of California at San Diego. She is co-founder of Paper Tiger Television
and Deep Dish Television. Her film, "The Gringo in Mañanaland,"
was screened at many film festivals, including Venice and London. She
is currently working on a video version of the Democracy Now radio program
to cover the Democratic and Republican Party conventions as part of
the Independent Media Center movement.